{"id":3329,"date":"2010-12-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2010\/12\/13\/tacoma-targets-declining-box-volumes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:30:38","slug":"tacoma-targets-declining-box-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2010\/12\/13\/tacoma-targets-declining-box-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tacoma targets declining box volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tacoma has pledged to tackle falling box throughput spurred by the loss of a major shipping line and increased competition from both Canada and the US East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma traffic fell 9.1% in the first nine months of this year, while other US West Coast ports have seen a rise in throughput.<\/p>\n<p>According to chief executive John Wolfe, new strategies are being put in place to win back traffic, although other commentators suggest that traffic diversification is the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>The decision taken by Maersk to move traffic from Tacoma to Seattle was a major blow. Maersk and CMA CGM consolidated their North West traffic by sharing capacity in Seattle, where throughput had risen 46.5% by the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>The Port of Tacoma Commission chairman, Don Johnson commented: &#8220;We have to continue to do our best to make sure that we give shippers the most cost-effective solutions to their problems.&#8221; He added that he was confident that container traffic could be won back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tacoma has pledged to tackle falling box throughput spurred by the loss of a major shipping line and increased competition from both Canada and the US East Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}